Hello! I was looking around and found some projects that have code which prevents reports from happening, since they use a mechanism that creates and deletes clones causing the page to crash when the mouse goes near. Are these allowed or not?

Edit: Thanks for telling me

No. This script can be used to make inapropriate projects unreportable.

They're not allowed

Terms wrote:

3.5 You agree not to use Scratch in any way intended to disrupt the service, gain unauthorized access to the service, or interfere with any other user's ability to use the service. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to:
1. Posting content deliberately designed to crash the Scratch website or editor;

4.5 Although the Scratch Team requires all users to comply with these Terms of Use, some inappropriate user-generated content may be submitted and displayed on the Scratch website. You understand that when you use Scratch you may be exposed to user-generated content that you find objectionable or offensive. If you see any content that violates the Community Guidelines or Terms of Use, please let us know by using the “Report this” button. You only need to report an item once. The Scratch Team reviews reported content every day.

8SidedCube wrote:

No. This script can be used to make inapropriate projects unreportable.

Thank you, but how do I deal with these projects?

DefectiveDetective21 wrote:

8SidedCube wrote:

No. This script can be used to make inapropriate projects unreportable.

Thank you, but how do I deal with these projects?

use contact us which can be found at the bottom of the page

DefectiveDetective21 wrote:

8SidedCube wrote:

No. This script can be used to make inapropriate projects unreportable.

Thank you, but how do I deal with these projects?

There's technically no way to make the project completely unable to be reported, so just report it anyways, no matter what it decides to say when you click the button.

8to16 wrote:

They're not allowed

3.5 You agree not to use Scratch in any way intended to disrupt the service, gain unauthorized access to the service, or interfere with any other user's ability to use the service. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to:
1. Posting content deliberately designed to crash the Scratch website or editor;

4.5 Although the Scratch Team requires all users to comply with these Terms of Use, some inappropriate user-generated content may be submitted and displayed on the Scratch website. You understand that when you use Scratch you may be exposed to user-generated content that you find objectionable or offensive. If you see any content that violates the Community Guidelines or Terms of Use, please let us know by using the “Report this” button. You only need to report an item once. The Scratch Team reviews reported content every day.

So what can I do if the report button doesn’t work?

DefectiveDetective21 wrote:

8to16 wrote:

They're not allowed

3.5 You agree not to use Scratch in any way intended to disrupt the service, gain unauthorized access to the service, or interfere with any other user's ability to use the service. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to:
1. Posting content deliberately designed to crash the Scratch website or editor;

4.5 Although the Scratch Team requires all users to comply with these Terms of Use, some inappropriate user-generated content may be submitted and displayed on the Scratch website. You understand that when you use Scratch you may be exposed to user-generated content that you find objectionable or offensive. If you see any content that violates the Community Guidelines or Terms of Use, please let us know by using the “Report this” button. You only need to report an item once. The Scratch Team reviews reported content every day.

So what can I do if the report button doesn’t work?

Disable project code and then report

DefectiveDetective21 wrote:

(#7)

8to16 wrote:

They're not allowed

3.5 You agree not to use Scratch in any way intended to disrupt the service, gain unauthorized access to the service, or interfere with any other user's ability to use the service. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to:
1. Posting content deliberately designed to crash the Scratch website or editor;

4.5 Although the Scratch Team requires all users to comply with these Terms of Use, some inappropriate user-generated content may be submitted and displayed on the Scratch website. You understand that when you use Scratch you may be exposed to user-generated content that you find objectionable or offensive. If you see any content that violates the Community Guidelines or Terms of Use, please let us know by using the “Report this” button. You only need to report an item once. The Scratch Team reviews reported content every day.

So what can I do if the report button doesn’t work?

Reload the project and don't start it to bypass the detector, click report and explain it uses a report detector

1,000th post!!! :D

For various reasons, these types of projects are not allowed.

Projects that only contain a detector to report if the mouse is near the report button are also not allowed, since they can be used to see who reported a project.

If a project is deliberately crashing itself and the page when the report button is hovered over, you can either use Contact Us (also linked in the footer at the bottom of every page) to report the project (make sure to include a link!) (note that this will take some time due to the amount of emails the ST gets- you can usually expect about a week or two to pass before they reply), or, if you can, you could use inspect element to move the report button out of the way so that you no longer hover over that part of the page to click it (don't worry- this only makes changes locally on your device, and should not affect the behavior of the report button itself). Alternatively, you could simply reload the page and never start the project before reporting it.

Stop the project. Then report it!

I found a different way to defeat the detector:
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Be on mobile
Stop project (simpler systems that use green flag will be bypassed)
See inside (if the project has a See inside detector too then being on mobile bypasses the detector if passive)
Delete the report detector sprite (deleting the detector allows you to report)(its also usefull when the report detector is passive)
Go back to project page and click report
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(what I mean by passive is always active even if stopping the project)

gdfsgdfsgdfg wrote:

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Wouldn't the report detector not work on mobile in the first place? Because it can't detect mouse events outside the stage itself?

BigNate469 wrote:

Wouldn't the report detector not work on mobile in the first place? Because it can't detect mouse events outside the stage itself?

for some reason I tried one of the projects with anti-report
it works on mobile (you click)
(tested)

colinmacc wrote:

Stop the project. Then report it!

In some cases stopping the project won’t do anything. I personally report the project with it still going, and just wait and see what happens. If they start annoying me on my profile, it’s a good chance for them to learn the rules.

han614698 wrote:

I personally report the project with it still going, and just wait and see what happens.

And if it crashes the project?

starlightsparker wrote:

(#16)
And if it crashes the project?

Reload, report. Include “report detector” and something like “intentional crash”in your report